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Added on January 3, 2025:
David Anaxagoras: Under a Star, Bright as Morning (Lightspeed, April 2024)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
David Anaxagoras: Anything Short of Death Is Survivable (Lightspeed, August 2021)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
David Anaxagoras: The Boy Who Ran from His Faerie Heart (Lightspeed, August 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
David Anaxagoras: We Shall Not Be Bitter at the End of the World (Lightspeed, January 2024)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
David Anaxagoras: Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff and a Bunch More That Fell from the Sky (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Lauren Beukes: The Geckomancer’s Lament (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Adam-Troy Castro: Amelia’s Story (Nightmare Magazine #147, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Adam-Troy Castro: What We Plan To Do To You (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Gene Doucette: Get Hyped! (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Gene Doucette: The Hole in the Garden (Lightspeed, September 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Gene Doucette: Hypnopompic Circumstance (Lightspeed, May 2021)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on January 3, 2025:
Gene Doucette: Primordial Soup and Salad (Lightspeed, October 2022)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on January 3, 2025:
Gene Doucette: Schrödinger’s Catastrophe (Lightspeed, November 2020)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on January 3, 2025:
Gene Doucette: Memoranda from the End of the World (Lightspeed, October 2021)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on January 3, 2025:
R. K. Duncan: Furious Communion (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #422, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Thoraiya Dyer: To Drive the Cold Winter Away (Strange Horizons, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Meg Elison: Autonomy (Clarkesworld, January 2025)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Simone Heller: Forever the Forest (Life Beyond Us Anthology, 2023)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on January 3, 2025:
Marissa Lingen: On the Water Its Crystal Teeth (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Marissa Lingen: Betsy Donnelly’s Forty-Third Chance (Nature Futures, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Pat Murphy: A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: More Human (Nature Futures, May 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Everything You Once Were (Flash Fiction Online, September 2022)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Water We Made to Breathe (Podcastle, May 2022)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Wonderful Wounds Await You (Flash Fiction Online, March 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: All the Better to Taste You (Podcastle, April 2024)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: The Twelve Dying Princesses (Nightmare Magazine #135, December 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: She Dreams of Moons and Moons (Strange Horizons, November 2022)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: At the End of Purple Meadow Road (Fireside Magazine, April 2022)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: How to Safely Store Your Dragons (Flash Fiction Online, December 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Gel Pen Notes from Generation Ship Y (Clarkesworld #203, August 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring (Clarkesworld #215, August 2024)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Wingless, Weeping/Featherless, Floating (Strange Horizons, October 2023)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Marisca Pichette: Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞ (Deadlands #36, Fall 2024)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on January 3, 2025:
Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt: Homes for the Holidays (Podcastle, December 2024)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on January 3, 2025:
Nisi Shawl: Vulcanization (Reactor, December 2024)
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Added on January 3, 2025:
Tia Tashiro: The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe (Clarkesworld, January 2025)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Steve Rasnic Tem: Before and After (Nightmare Magazine #147, December 2024)

Added on January 3, 2025:
Lavie Tidhar: The Feast Night of Vengeful Ghosts (Deadlands #36, Fall 2024)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on January 3, 2025:
James Van Pelt: On the Existence of Ghosts, As If (Deadlands #36, Fall 2024)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Harvest Moon (Solarpunk, July 2022)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: The Last Word (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Death Is Better (Lightspeed, July 2023)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Child of the River (Lightspeed, August 2024)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: The Tree Whisperer (Xenocultivars Anthology, 2022)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: The House of Linear Change (Lightspeed, February 2023)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: A Witch’s Transition In The City Of Ghosts (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #380, April 2023)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Immortality Soup, Or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods (Lightspeed, October 2023)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
William Alexander: Ana’s Tag (LCRW, November 2008)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
William Alexander: The House on the Moon (Uncanny Magazine #24, September 2018)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
William Alexander: Death Comes Sideways to the Mall (Apex Magazine, March 2013)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
William Alexander: The War Between the Water and the Road (Unstuck Magazine #3, 2014)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
William Alexander: The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Madeline Ashby: The Education of Junior Number 12 (Angry Robot, December 2011)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 17’.
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Featured in ‘Year’s Best SF 17’.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Ashok K. Banker: Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Lightspeed, November 2024)
A serial. Part 2.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: NotRob (Nightmare Magazine #145, October 2024)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: Babywings (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: No Other Life (Nightmare Magazine #82, July 2019)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: The Law of Take (GigaNotoSaurus, March 2022)
Review: Isfdb:

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: My Sister is a Scorpion (Lightspeed, August 2021)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: The Rustle of Growing Things (Lightspeed, July 2022)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: A Land of Saints and Monsters (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #334, July 2021)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: The Kingdom of the Butterflies (Luna Station Quarterly, December 2019)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: The Weight of a Thousand Needles (Lightspeed, June 2019)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista (Nightmare Magazine #117, July 2022)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies (Deadlands #35, Summer 2024)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Isabel Cañas: All The Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10 (Deadlands #30, October 2023)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
AnaMaria Curtis: The Butcher’s Heart (Strange Horizons, November 2024)
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Added on December 2, 2024:
R. K. Duncan: A Guide for Your Journey to the Green Hills (Nightmare Magazine, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Thoraiya Dyer: The Painted Skin and the Final Stroke (Clarkesworld #219, December 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Andrew Fraknoi: No One Bet On Canis Major (Sci Phi Journal, September 2024)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on December 2, 2024:
Daryl Gregory: I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe (Reactor, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Ai Jiang: Ancestor Code Error (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
P. H. Lee: The Ones Who Come at Last (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Aimee Ogden: The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness Offers Three Provocative Verbs, Separated by Commas (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Alex Shvartsman: Customer Reviews for Mystery Gadget 1.0, Sorted in Chronological Order (Nature Futures, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Sonya Taaffe: Twice Every Day Returning (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Woodmask (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Added on December 2, 2024:
Sabrina Vourvoulias: Dead Reckoning in 6/8 Time (GigaNotoSaurus, December 2024)

Free Speculative Fiction Online

New Additions

Updates and news via Mastodon.

David Anaxagoras: Under a Star, Bright as Morning (Lightspeed, April 2024)

David Anaxagoras: Anything Short of Death Is Survivable (Lightspeed, August 2021)

David Anaxagoras: The Boy Who Ran from His Faerie Heart (Lightspeed, August 2023)

David Anaxagoras: We Shall Not Be Bitter at the End of the World (Lightspeed, January 2024)

David Anaxagoras: Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff and a Bunch More That Fell from the Sky (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Lauren Beukes: The Geckomancer’s Lament (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Adam-Troy Castro: Amelia’s Story (Nightmare Magazine #147, December 2024)

Adam-Troy Castro: What We Plan To Do To You (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Gene Doucette: Get Hyped! (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Gene Doucette: The Hole in the Garden (Lightspeed, September 2023)

Gene Doucette: Hypnopompic Circumstance (Lightspeed, May 2021)

Gene Doucette: Primordial Soup and Salad (Lightspeed, October 2022)

Gene Doucette: Schrödinger’s Catastrophe (Lightspeed, November 2020)

Gene Doucette: Memoranda from the End of the World (Lightspeed, October 2021)

R. K. Duncan: Furious Communion (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #422, December 2024)

Thoraiya Dyer: To Drive the Cold Winter Away (Strange Horizons, December 2024)

Meg Elison: Autonomy (Clarkesworld, January 2025)

Simone Heller: Forever the Forest (Life Beyond Us Anthology, 2023)

Marissa Lingen: On the Water Its Crystal Teeth (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Marissa Lingen: Betsy Donnelly’s Forty-Third Chance (Nature Futures, December 2024)

Pat Murphy: A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts (Lightspeed, December 2024)

Marisca Pichette: More Human (Nature Futures, May 2023)

Marisca Pichette: Everything You Once Were (Flash Fiction Online, September 2022)

Marisca Pichette: Water We Made to Breathe (Podcastle, May 2022)

Marisca Pichette: Wonderful Wounds Await You (Flash Fiction Online, March 2023)

Marisca Pichette: All the Better to Taste You (Podcastle, April 2024)

Marisca Pichette: The Twelve Dying Princesses (Nightmare Magazine #135, December 2023)

Marisca Pichette: She Dreams of Moons and Moons (Strange Horizons, November 2022)

Marisca Pichette: At the End of Purple Meadow Road (Fireside Magazine, April 2022)

Marisca Pichette: How to Safely Store Your Dragons (Flash Fiction Online, December 2023)

Marisca Pichette: Gel Pen Notes from Generation Ship Y (Clarkesworld #203, August 2023)

Marisca Pichette: Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring (Clarkesworld #215, August 2024)

Marisca Pichette: Wingless, Weeping/Featherless, Floating (Strange Horizons, October 2023)

Marisca Pichette: Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞ (Deadlands #36, Fall 2024)

Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt: Homes for the Holidays (Podcastle, December 2024)

Nisi Shawl: Vulcanization (Reactor, December 2024)

Tia Tashiro: The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe (Clarkesworld, January 2025)

Steve Rasnic Tem: Before and After (Nightmare Magazine #147, December 2024)

Lavie Tidhar: The Feast Night of Vengeful Ghosts (Deadlands #36, Fall 2024)

James Van Pelt: On the Existence of Ghosts, As If (Deadlands #36, Fall 2024)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Harvest Moon (Solarpunk, July 2022)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: The Last Word (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Death Is Better (Lightspeed, July 2023)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Child of the River (Lightspeed, August 2024)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: The Tree Whisperer (Xenocultivars Anthology, 2022)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: The House of Linear Change (Lightspeed, February 2023)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: A Witch’s Transition In The City Of Ghosts (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #380, April 2023)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: Immortality Soup, Or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods (Lightspeed, October 2023)

William Alexander: Ana’s Tag (LCRW, November 2008)

William Alexander: The House on the Moon (Uncanny Magazine #24, September 2018)

William Alexander: Death Comes Sideways to the Mall (Apex Magazine, March 2013)

William Alexander: The War Between the Water and the Road (Unstuck Magazine #3, 2014)

William Alexander: The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)

Madeline Ashby: The Education of Junior Number 12 (Angry Robot, December 2011)

Ashok K. Banker: Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Isabel Cañas: NotRob (Nightmare Magazine #145, October 2024)

Isabel Cañas: Babywings (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Isabel Cañas: No Other Life (Nightmare Magazine #82, July 2019)

Isabel Cañas: The Law of Take (GigaNotoSaurus, March 2022)

Isabel Cañas: My Sister is a Scorpion (Lightspeed, August 2021)

Isabel Cañas: The Rustle of Growing Things (Lightspeed, July 2022)

Isabel Cañas: A Land of Saints and Monsters (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #334, July 2021)

Isabel Cañas: The Kingdom of the Butterflies (Luna Station Quarterly, December 2019)

Isabel Cañas: The Weight of a Thousand Needles (Lightspeed, June 2019)

Isabel Cañas: There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista (Nightmare Magazine #117, July 2022)

Isabel Cañas: Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies (Deadlands #35, Summer 2024)

Isabel Cañas: All The Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10 (Deadlands #30, October 2023)

AnaMaria Curtis: The Butcher’s Heart (Strange Horizons, November 2024)

R. K. Duncan: A Guide for Your Journey to the Green Hills (Nightmare Magazine, November 2024)

Thoraiya Dyer: The Painted Skin and the Final Stroke (Clarkesworld #219, December 2024)

Andrew Fraknoi: No One Bet On Canis Major (Sci Phi Journal, September 2024)

Daryl Gregory: I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe (Reactor, November 2024)

Ai Jiang: Ancestor Code Error (Lightspeed, November 2024)

P. H. Lee: The Ones Who Come at Last (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Aimee Ogden: The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness Offers Three Provocative Verbs, Separated by Commas (Lightspeed, November 2024)

Alex Shvartsman: Customer Reviews for Mystery Gadget 1.0, Sorted in Chronological Order (Nature Futures, November 2024)

Sonya Taaffe: Twice Every Day Returning (Uncanny Magazine #61, November 2024)